Dear friend! If you send your theses on the military question, I shall of course be pleased to discuss them. As for your intervention against Golay, I do not understand why you could have thought that it was "awkward." In my opinion, on the contrary, it was archicleverly and archiusefully done. It is precisely more directly and decisively that one must speak out against the absurd pacifism of the French (achieving socialism without revolution, etc.) and the absurd faith in democracy. Golay, in my view, ought to be beaten publicly and specifically for his retreats from the valuable admissions in his brochure "Le Socialisme qui meurt"*. It seems to me that this brochure is excellent material, a canvas for criticism of the weakness and lack of thought in the French left.

I received from you a copy of the Russian text of the leaflet (I was very glad that you liked it). But the French text is still missing!! And I asked you to write in two copies!!! The thought oppresses me that we shall be late — after all, only two months remain until May 1st, and the difficulties of communication with the warring countries are immeasurably great.

As for Usiévich, you write quite rightly that he is "spineless." That means I scolded him not without reason (and I asked to show you the letter precisely so that we could reach agreement on the methods of influencing him).

So, if possible, hasten by all means with the French and English translation of the leaflet. If for some reason and contrary to expectation it was not possible to write in two copies, then from—

* — "Dying Socialism." Ed.